Sam Faiers has revealed she will never move back to Essex, despite the county making her a household name on TOWIE. The 33-year-old mother of three shot to fame on the ITV2 reality show alongside her sister Billie when she was just 19.
After meeting her partner Paul Knightley and becoming a mother, Faiers relocated to Hertfordshire and then Surrey. She told Closer magazine: 'When Paul and I met and then we had little Paul we wanted to start a new life for ourselves as a family somewhere just outside Essex. We did four amazing years in Hertfordshire, but I still feel it wasn't quite where I wanted.'
The couple now live in their 'forever home' in Surrey, where Faiers says she feels settled. 'I don't think we would move anywhere else in England. I just feel like this is home for me now,' she explained.
Faiers still visits her family in Essex a couple of times a month, but added: 'I think at this age in life you're in your little bubble. It's me and Paul and the kids.'
Earlier this year, the Revive Collagen entrepreneur shared a poignant Instagram post about watching her eldest son Paul Jr. grow up. Reflecting on a conversation with her eight-year-old, she wrote: 'He then said "can I still live with you then?" I said you can be with me forever. It's so sad them growing up.'
